Guo Kan

Guo Kan (1217-1277), also known as Kuo Kan, was a Chinese general of the Mongol Empire.

Biography
Kuo Kan was born into a Han Chinese ethnic family, but later joined the Mongol Empire in their war with the Jurchen Empire in the 1230s. After capturing Kaifeng in 1232, he took part in Hulegu Khan's invasion of the Middle East. He supervised the reduction of Baghdad's walls in the 1258 Fall of Baghdad, and he was made Governor of Baghdad.

With the death of Mongke Khan, Kuo Kan returned to Mongolia for a tribal council, and served his brother Kublai Khan in the war with the Song Empire of southern China. In 1262 he captured Xuzhou Castle and Xiangyang fell in 1273, and he was made Prefect of Southern Song in 1276. He died naturally a year later.